Veterinary poultice-boot.



No. 630,3I0. Patented Aug. 8, |899. W. C. AGNEW.

VETERINARY POULTICE BOOT.

(Application led Jan. 24, 1899.)

(No Model.)`

' UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

"WILLIAM C. AGNEW, OF CRESTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO FRED BLACKMORE, OF SAME PLACE, AND E. C. OAKLAND, OF OGLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

VETERINARY POULTlCE-f-BOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,310, dated August 8, 1899. Application tiled January 24, 1899. Serial No. 703,255. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: l plate fixed on the outside front end of the Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. AGNEW, a sole and secured to the insole by the rivets 56 citizen of the United States, residing at Cres- 9 9, extending through said toe-plate, sole, ton, in the county of Ogle and State of Illiand insole.

5 nois, have invented certain new and useful l0 denotes a reinforcing strip or binder Improvements in Veterinary Poultice-Boots,V which extends around the bottom of the up; and I do declare the following to bea full, per'at its junction with the sole, and it takes 55 clear, and exact description of the invention, the place of a welt, so that the sole may be such as will enable others skilled in the art sewed to both the binder-strip and upper.

1o to which it appertains to make and use the A boot of this character is very simple, is same. easily attached and detached, and when prop My invention relates to improvements in erly adjusted it is impossible forthe animal 6o veterinary poultice-boots; and the object is to to displace it. It will be -found very useful provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective in applying moisture to the hoof, as well as I5 device for the practical application of a poulapplying poultices or other medicaments for tice or other medicament to a horses foot. various affectionsof the foot and leg, such as To this end the invention consists in the varicose veins, splint, speedy-cut, strain, and 65 construction, combination, and arrangement the like. of the same,- as will be hereinafter more fully In the accompanying drawings Ihave shown ,2Q described, and particularly pointed out in the Y my invention in the best form now known to claim. me but many changesin the details 4may be "In the accompanying drawings the same `made within the. skillI cfa good mechanic 7o reference characters indicate the same parts without departing yfrom the' spirit of my inofthe invention. vention.

z' 5 Figure l is a perspective view of my im- Having thus fully described my invention, proved veterinary'boot as it appears in posiwhat I claim as new and useful, and desire to tion to receive the horses foot. Fig. 2 is a secure byLetters Patent of the United States, 75 similar view showing the boot secured to the is foot. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through An improved horse boot comprising the 3o the boot, showing the foot in dotted outline. rigid sole 1, and the rigid upper 2, entirely en- Fig. 4E is a bottom plan view of the boot. colnpassing the sole and stitched thereto, the

1 denotes the rigid sole, and 2 the rigid upiiexible tongue 3, forming a continuation of 8o per, the parallel rear edges of which are conthe upper, the felt packing-strip extending nected by a flexible tongue 3, forming a conaround the inner face of the open end-of said tinuation of the upper. This tongue is of soft upper, the sheetnnetal insole 7, the toe-plate leather, which allows the upper to be snugly S, extending across the front end of the botdrawn about the foot and fetlock and setom of the sole, the rivets 9 9 passing through 85 cured in place by means of the straps 4: 4 and the insole, sole and toe-plate, and the reinbuckles 5 5. The upper2 entirely surrounds forcing-strip l0 extending entirelyA around 4o the sole, to which it is stitched. the sole and upper, substantiallyas 'shown 6 denotes a felt packing-strip extending enand described. tirely around the inner edge of the open end In testimony whereof I have hereunto lset 9o of the upper, so as to forml apacking around my hand in presence of two subscribingwitthe animals leg above the fetlock, and it nesses.

45 serves to retain the poultice or"other medicament in the boot and prevent it escaping or Vitnesses: leaking out when the animal is lying down. W. II. DICKINSON,

7 represents a metallic insole, and S a toc- A. LEWIS.

WILLIAM e. GNE'W. 

